Ruth R. Wisse 7Mar2016 Yiddish Book Center
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- Yiddish language, Yiddish teaching, Yiddish learning, Childhood, Yiddish scene, Yiddish speaker, Immigration, Migration, Other languages, Literature, Books, Career and Professional Life, Scholarship, Academia, World War Two, Education, Jewish education, Zionism, United States, Canada, Politics and political movements, Jewish community, Yiddish personalities, Montreal, Quebec, New York City, New York, Max Weinreich, Avrom Sutzkever, Abraham Sutzkever, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, McGill University, YIVO, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, German, mother
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- Yiddish
Ruth R. Wisse, author and retired research professor in Yiddish and comparative literature, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on March 7, 2016 in New York, New York.
To learn more about the Yiddish Book Center’s Wexler Oral History Project, visit:
http://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/tell-your-story
To cite this interview:
Ruth R. Wisse Oral History Interview, interviewed by Christa Whitney, Yiddish Book Center’s Wexler Oral History Project, New York, New York, March 7, 2016. Video recording, [https://archive.org/details/RuthRWisse7Mar2016YiddishBookCenter] ([date accessed])
- Abstract
- Ruth R. Wisse, author and retired research professor in Yiddish and comparative literature, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on March 7, 2016 in New York, New York.
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- 2017-12-14 21:03:54
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- 5310, 5311
- Citation
- Ruth R. Wisse Oral History Interview, interviewed by Christa Whitney, Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project, New York, New York, March 7, 2016. Video recording, [https://archive.org/details/RuthRWisse7Mar2016YiddishBookCenter] ([date accessed])
- Controlled-themes
- Yiddish language | Yiddish teaching | Yiddish learning | Childhood | Yiddish scene | Immigration and migration | Languages | Literature | Books | Career and professional life | Academia | World War II | Education | Jewish education | Zionism | United States | Canada | Politics and political movements | Yiddish luminaries
- Date-themes
- 1940s | 1950s | 1960s | 1970s
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- 5485, 5486, 5487, 5488, 5489, 6059
- Geographic-themes
- Montréal, Québec | Québec, Canada | New York City | New York | Cambridge, Massachusetts | Massachusetts | United States | Canada
- Identifier
- RuthRWisse7Mar2016YiddishBookCenter
- Interview-date
- 3/7/2016
- Interview-location
- New York, New York
- Narrator-first-name
- Ruth R.
- Narrator-last-name
- Wisse
- Organization-themes
- Harvard University | McGill University | YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
- People-themes
- Max Weinreich | Avrom Sutzkever
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- Internet Archive HTML5 Uploader 1.6.3
- Series
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Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students
Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students
- Uncontrolled-themes
- Montreal | Quebec | New York City | New York | Max Weinreich | Avrom Sutzkever | Abraham Sutzkever | Harvard University | Cambridge | Massachusetts | McGill University | YIVO | 1940s | 1950s | 1960s | 1970s | German | mother |
- Uncontrolled-themes2
- Montréal, Québec | Québec, Canada | New York City | New York | Max Weinreich | Avrom Sutzkever | Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts | Massachusetts | McGill University | YIVO Institute for Jewish Research | 1940s | 1950s | 1960s | 1970s | German | mother
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- 785
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